Witherspoon & Vergara Will "Mess With Texas"

Reese Witherspoon and Modern Family star Sofia Vergara are teaming up for the film Don't Mess With Texas says Deadline.

The story follows a cop and a prisoner on the run from a gang of crooked cops.

Universal Pictures won a bidding war for the comedy spec script from screenwriters John Quaintance and David Feeney .

Witherspoon Bruna Papandrea and Dana Fox will produce the pic.

Production looks to get going next March